Drummond, merchants, in London, in the firm of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. bankers to his majesty, appointed for that purpose. 2. A part of the faid loan fhall confift in bonds, to be figned by the faid Meffrs. Boyd, Benfield, and Co. or by one of the individuals belonging to the faid firm; and thofe bonds may be for fuch fums as fhall be judged proper. 3. A capital of two millions five hundred thousand pounds sterling fhall be raised by thofe bonds, bearing intereft at three per cent. per annum. The lenders fhall not demand the repayment thereof, but we referve to ourfelf the right of redeeming them at par, viz. at the rate of one hundred pounds fterling in money, for one hundred pounds fterling of capital. 4. The faid capital of two millions five hundred thousand pounds fterling fhall be valued to the lenders at fixty pounds fterling in money for one hundred pounds fterling of capital. 5. The refidue of the faid loan fhall confift in bonds, to be likewife figned by the faid houfe of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. or by one of the individuals belonging thereto, containing an engagement to pay, for the term of twenty-five years, annuities at the rate of ten per cent. of the capital lent; and the faid annuities for twenty-five years fhall be in full to the lenders, as well for the capital as for the intereft on this part of the loan. 6. The faid annuities fhall amount in the whole to one hundred and fifty thousand pounds fterling, which, at the rate of one hundred pounds capital for ten pounds annuity, will produce the fum of one million five hundred thousand pounds fterling, form ing the other part of the faid loan. 7. The interest of the bonds, at three per cent. and the annuities for the term, fhall be computed from the firft of May, 1794, and fhall be paid half-yearly, on the first of May and the first of November in each year, at the house of the faid Meffrs. Boyd, Benfield, and Co. or at the office which fhall be appointed by them for that purpofe. 8. Although the redemption of the capital flock of perpetual annuities at three per cent. is not demandable at any period, we engage, neverthelefs, to remit to the faid Houfe of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. the fum of five thousand pounds fterling, monthly, during the term of twenty-five years, for which the annuities fhall continue; which fum of five thoufand pounds fterling per month, during the term of twenty-five years, or fixty thousand pounds fterling per annum, fhall be applied by the faid houfe of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. under the direction and controul of five perfons (who fhall be appointed by us for that purpofe) to the buying up, at the market price, of the bonds bearing intereft at three per cent. ; and not only the faid fum of fixty thousand pounds fterling per annum, but alfo the intereft accruing from all the bonds which fhall have been fucceffively bought up, fhall be invariably applied to the purchafe of other bonds, for the purpofe of thus keeping up an annual finking fund for the redemption of the faid bonds, until their final extinction, to the amount of fixty thousand pounds fterling per anmum, augmented by the intereft of all the bonds which fhall have been fucceffively bought up. 9. The 9. The bonds, at the head of which the present octroi fhall be printed, fhall be conceived in these terms, viz. For thofe bearing an annual intereft of three per cent. "We, the undersigned, being thereto fpecially authorized by his imperial and royal apoftolic majefty, acknowledge to have received of the fum of pounds fterling, for which, in our faid quality, we will pay a yearly intereft, in h two payments, of Done at London, the And for the bonds for the annuities for a term. "We, the undersigned, being thereto fpecially authorized by his imperial and royal apoftolic majefty, acknowledge to have received of the fum of pounds fterling, for which, in our faid quality, we will pay during twenty-five h years, the fum of which fhall be in full, both for the faid capital and for the intereft." Done at London, the 10. In order to provide for the fecurity both of the capital and the yearly intereft of this loan, and to give, upon this occafion, the moft fatisfactory and proper fecurities, we engage and affign, by thefe prefents, to thofe who fall furnish the faid loan, the clear furplus, free from all charge, of all our royal revenues, to the amount of the faid fum, and efpecially the reve nues of our provinces of the Low Countries. 11. We further engage to remit, at our option, either to the houfe of the widow Nottine and for, at Bruffels, or to that of Boyd, Ben-, field, and Co. at London, punctu ally every fix months, before the firft of May and the first of No. vember in each year, the amount of two hundred and eighty-five thousand pounds fterling per annum, during the term of twentyfive years, fo far as the faid fum fhall be neceflary for discharging the payments and redeeming the capitals, as ftipulated by this octroi; fo that the funds neceffary for the payment of the intereft and the annuities, and for the buying up the bonds, fhall be realized in the hands of the faid Meffrs. Boyd, Benfield, and Co. in time, when each half-yearly payment becomes due, and for the purchafes in each month. 12. As a collateral fecurity for the faid loan, there fhall be depofited in the hands of the faid Meffrs. Boyd, Benfield, and Co. to be de pofited by them in the Bank of England, actions in mortgage of the Bank of Vienna, to the amount in value of the fum of four millions fterling, bearing intereft at the rate of five per cent. on the amount of the nominal capitals of this loan; and, according to the gradual redemption of the bonds bearing interest at three per cent. and of the payment of the annuities for the term, a quantity of actions of the Bank of Vienna fhall be withdrawn from the faid depofit, in proportion to the payments and redemptions which fhall have been made. 13. Each of the lenders fhall rëceive an equal portion of bonds and annuities, fo that fuch of them who fhall have fubfcribed one hun dred pounds fterling in money will receive a bond for eighty-three pounds fix fhillings and eight pence fterling, bearing intereft at three per cent. and another bond for the payment of an annuity of five pounds fterling for twenty-five years. We therefore command all whom it may concern to govern themfelves accordingly: we renounce, moreover, by these prefents, as well for ourself, as for our heirs and fucceffors, all exceptions and advantages whatfoever which might be claimed for diminishing or invalidating the obligations which we have contracted by these prefents, and of which we affure and promife the exact and inviolable accomplishment; and we derogate, in this inftance, from the ordinances and inftructions now exifting for the conduct and direction of our domains and finances, by which it is prohibited to alienate, fell, or charge them, either in the whole or in part; from which we have released, and do releafe, thofe of our council for our domains and finances,thofe of our chamberof accompts, and all others whom it may concern: we difcharge them in confequence, on this occafion, from the oath which they have taken for the obfervance and execution of the faid ordinances and inftructions, which nevertheless, in all other cafes, points, and articles, fhall remain in their full force and vigour. And these prefents fhall be exhibited as well to thofe of our council of domains and finances, as of our chamber of accompts, in the Low Countries, to be there respectively verified, confirmed, and regiftered, according to their form and tenor, and afterwards tranfmitted to the house of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. at London, for the fecurity of the concerned. For fuch is our good pleasure. In witnefs whereof we have figned these presents, and caufed our great feal to be fet thereto. Given at our head quarters, in the city of Tournay, the 18th of May, in the year of our Lord 1794, and of our reigns of the Roman empire the fecond, and of Hungary and Bohemia, the third year. (Signed) FRANCIS, TRAUTT, Vt. By the emperor and king. P. DU RIEUX. TENOR OF THE SECOND OCTROI. Francis, by the Grace of God, Emperor of the Romans, &c. &c. To all those who fhall fee thefe prefents, greeting: The wants of our fervice requiringan augmentationof extraordinary refources, we have refolved to open a new loan of 1,600,000l. fterling, at the houfe of Walter Boyd, Paul Benfield, and James Drummond, merchants, at London, under the firm of Boyd, Benfield, and Co. upon the fame engagements, conditions, and ftipulations as that of 3,000,000l. fterling, already opened by them, on our account, by the octroi of the 18th of May, 1794; which engagements, conditions, and ftipulations, fhall be deemed to be now herein inferted, at the fame rate of proportion as exists between the capital fums of the two loans; provided that, for the fecurity of the lenders, as well as thofe who are or fhall be concerned in the first loan of 3,000,000l. fterling, as those who fhall be parties in the prefent, we engage, affign, and deftine thereto, by the prefent octroi, all our royal revenues in our hereditary dominions, kingdoms, and provinces, without exception, engaging, moreover, in further augmentation of the fecurity for the fecond loan, as we have done for the the first, to remit, as a collateral fecurity, to the faid Meffrs. Boyd, Benfield, and Co. actions in mortgage of the Bank of Vienna, bearing an intereft of 5 per cent. for a fum proportioned to this fecond loan, upon the footing ftipulated by the 12th article of the octroi, of the 18th of May, 1794, above recited. For fuch is our good pleafure. In witnefs whereof we have figned these presents, and caufed our great feal to be fet thereto. Given at Vienna, the 4th of May, in the year of our Lord 1795, and of our reigns of the Roman empire the fecond, and of the hereditary dominions the third year. (Signed) FRANCIS. TRAUTT, Vt. By the emperor and king. P. DU RIEUX. Treaty of Defenfive Alliance between his Britannic Majefty and the Emperor of Germany, May 20. His majefty the emperor, and his majesty the king of Great Britain, being defirous to renew and to cement the ancient relations of friendship and intimacy between their crowns and their refpective dominions, as well as to provide in a folid and permanent manner, for their future fafety, and for the general tranquillity of Europe, have determined, in confequence of thefe falutary views, to proceed to the conclufion of a new treaty of alliance; and they have nominated for that purpofe, viz. his majesty the emperor, his actual privy counfellor and minifter for foreign affairs, baron de Thugut, and his majesty the king of Great Britain, fir Morton Eden, one of his majefty's privy counfellors, knight of the bath, envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary of his faid majefty, at the court of Vienna; who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles: Art. 1. There fhall be between his imperial majefty and his Britannic majefty, their heirs and fucceffors, and between all the refpective dominions, provinces and fubjects of their faid majefties, a perfect and fincere good underftanding, friendship, and defenfive alliance. The high contracting parties fhall ufe all their endeavours for the maintenance of their common interefts, and fhall employ all the means in their power to defend and guarantee each other mutually against every hoftile aggreffion. 2. The high contracting parties fhall act in perfect concert in every thing which relates to the re-eftablishment and to the maintenance of general peace; and they fhall employ all their efforts to prevent, by the means of friendly negociation, the attacks with which they may be threatened, either feparately or conjointly. 3. In cafe either of the high contracting parties fhould be attacked, molefted, or disturbed in the poffeffion of its dominions, territories, or cities whatfoever, or in the exercife of its rights, liberties, or franchifes wherefoever, and without any exception, the other will exert all its endeavours to fuccour its ally without delay, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned. 4. Their imperial and Britannic majefties reciprocally guarantee to each other, and in the moft express manner, all their dominions, terriritories, cities, rights, liberties, and franchises whatfoever, fuch as they at prefent poffefs, and fuch as they (I 3) fhall fhall poffefs, at the conclufion of a general peace, made by their common agreement and confent,, in conformity to their mutual engagements in that refpect, in the convention of the 30th of Auguft, 1793. And the cafe of this defenfive alliance fall exift from the momeat whenever either of the high contracting parties fhall be difturbed, molefted, or difquieted in the peaceable enjoyment of its dominions, territories, cities, rights, liberties, or franchises whatfoever, according to the state of actual poffeffion, and according to the ftate of poffeffion which fhall exift at the above-mentioned epoch. 5. The fuccours to be mutually furnished, in virtue of this treaty, fhall confift in 20,000 infantry, and 6000 cavalry, which fhall be furnifhed in the space of two months after requifition made by the party attacked, and fhall continue to be at its difpofition during the whole course of the war in which it fhall be engaged. The fuccours fhall be paid and maintained by the power required, wherever its ally fhall employ them; but the power requiring fhall provide them with the neceffary bread and forage, upon the fame footing with its own troops. If the party requiring prefers, it may demand the fuccours to be furnished in money; and in that cafe the fuccours fhall be computed at the following rate, that is to fay, 10,000 Dutch florins per month for every thousand infantry, and 30,000 Dutch florins er month for every thousand cavalry. And this money fhall be paid monthly, in equal portions, throughout the whole year.. If thefe fuccours fhould not fuffice for the defence of the power requiring, the other party fhall augment them according as the occafion fhall require, and fhall even fucif the circumftances fhould render cour its ally with its whole forces, it neceffary. ration of the intimate alliance, 6. It is agreed that, in confideeftablished by this treaty between the two crowns, neither the one or the other of the high contracting parties fhall permit the vessels of merchandize belonging to its ally, ally, and which fhall have been or to the people or fubjects of its taken at fea by any fhips of war or privateers whatfoever, belonging to enemies or rebels, to be brought into its harbours; nor any fhip of ed, in any cafe or under any prewar or privateer to be therein armtext whatfoever, in order to cruife against the fhips and property of fuch ally, or of his fubjects; nor that there be conveyed by its fubjects, or in their fhips, to the enemies of its ally, any provifions, or military or naval ftores. For these ends, as often as it fhall be required by either of the allies, the other fhall be bound to renew exprefs prohibitions, ordering all perfons cle, upon pain of exemplary puto conform themfelves to this artinishment, in addition to the full made to the injured parties. reftitution and fatisfaction to be hibitions and penalties abovemen7. If, notwithstanding the protioned, any veffels of enemies or rebels fhould bring into the ports of either of the high contracting parties any prizes taken from the other, or from its fubjects, the former fhall oblige them to quit its ports in the space of twenty-four hours after their arrival, upon pain the crews and paffengers, or other of feizure and confifcation; and prifoners, fubjects of its ally, who all have been brought into the faid ports, fhall immediately after |